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Debugging .NET apps for .NET 4.0
With Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 getting ready to be shipped sometime in the next year, I wanted to see what were peoples ideas for how to debug applications that were written with them.  Are you happy in production with what you are currently Read More...
Posted 02 September 09 12:45 by Tom | 11 Comments   
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Logging modules for ASP.NET (MVC) and also for Windows Azure
I was just reading through Scott Hanselman’s post about ELMAH and this sounds like a great idea.  Getting a easy to consume report of all of your exceptions is a wonderful thing, especially when you add in that you can get it as an RSS feed, an email Read More...
Any ASP.NET Debugging requests?
With us starting to look forward to .NET 4.0, I started to think about the debugging story for ASP.NET and wondered if you had any requests for what you would like to see. Some of the things that are on my mind are ideas like: Giving some kind of visual Read More...
Posted 22 April 09 06:00 by Tom | 11 Comments   
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ASP.NET Troubleshooting
So with how long ASP.NET has been out for now, I am really curious to know how people go about tracking down issues in their project. I’d like to know things like: How do you know there is a problem What tools do you use to confirm that the problem really Read More...
Strange callstacks
How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesn’t quite look right.  Chances are the problem is that you don’t have correct symbols. For example, if you see something Read More...
Posted 29 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Videos are coming – suggested topics?
So I have started to create some videos showing various things that you can do.  Are there specific things that everyone would like to see?  I’d like to build a list of the things you want and then I can start knocking them out.  I’m figuring Read More...
Posted 13 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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Tail calling in .NET
Thought I would give a little details on one type of optimization that it is possible to see and explain what it is and how it affects things so that if you come across it, you will understand what is happening. So there is this concept of tail calling Read More...
Posted 02 October 08 06:00 by Tom | 3 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tip: How to avoid creating a GC Hole
There are only a few things that can make a .NET process crash.  The most common one is an Unhandled Exception getting raised.  Another way that is can happen is by creating a GC Hole. What is a GC Hole So first a little background on what I Read More...
Posted 25 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 5 Comments   
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High Memory part 6 – Fragmentation revisited
I have talked about a bunch of commands used to troubleshoot a managed memory problem in the past and given some situations of using them like: High memory, CPU, or other performance problems with .NET High Memory continued - Datatables High Memory part Read More...
Debugger Extension update
The debugger extension that we were working on getting out with the debugger package has hit some roadblocks and it looks like it isn't going to be shipping with the debugger anytime soon. We are looking to see if we can find an alternative method to Read More...
Posted 12 September 08 06:00 by Tom | 2 Comments   
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SOS Best Practice: Match the SOS version with the process being analyzed
I haven’t seen a whole of of issues around this as of yet, but now that 3.5 SP1 has released that may change.  If you copy SOS.dll to another location and then load it out of that directory to troubleshoot dumps, you may start seeing problems.  Read More...
Posted 25 August 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Do you think about supportability?
So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites.  My thinking is that there isn’t much time spent in planning for supportability.  There are a lot of other concerns that take priority, What is more important – Design or Content Read More...
Posted 24 July 08 06:00 by Tom | 6 Comments   
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ASP.NET Tips: DumpAllExceptions output changes
The first time you run !DumpAllExceptions you will see it print out one full exception for each type of exception that is in the dump. This will include the message and the callstack of the exception. For example: Any time after that, if you run the same Read More...
Posted 23 July 08 06:00 by Tom | 1 Comments   
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Windows Internal Beta Exam 70-660
I wanted to pass along some really exciting news if you haven’t heard about it yet, we are getting ready to release a new certification that targets developers and IT professionals who need to know about the internals of Windows for their job.  You Read More...
Posted 16 July 08 12:04 by Tom | 6 Comments   
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Debugging ASP.NET on a Production Server 101
So I thought I would put all the information together in one place that I have been creating over the past few months.  I’ll try to go through all the steps and the different things that you will need to use in order to track down a problem. Realizing Read More...
Posted 15 July 08 06:00 by Tom | 8 Comments   
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